On 2/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rod Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@rodsbooks.com">mythtv@rodsbooks.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Monday 12 February 2007 18:15, Steve Hodge wrote:<br>> On 2/13/07, Rod Smith <<a href="mailto:mythtv@rodsbooks.com">mythtv@rodsbooks.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Monday 12 February 2007 03:43, Jeremy Hunt wrote:
<br>> > > My Myth box using XFS<br>> > > would crash constantly when recording 3 shows while watching a fourth,<br>> > > basically heavy IO. After a bit of frustration I found the notes about<br>
> > > using 8k stack kernels when using XFS and made the switch.<br>> ><br>> > Would somebody mind providing a pointer to how to make this change?<br>...<br>> In the kernel config, it should be under Kernel Hacking->Kernel
<br>> Debugging->Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb.<br>><br>> At least with my Gentoo 2.6.16-r7 kernel that's where it is.<br><br>It must have moved or been removed. I've checked a 2.6.17 kernel (as delivered
<br>with Ubuntu, I believe) on a 32-bit system, a <a href="http://2.6.19.2">2.6.19.2</a> kernel on the same<br>32-bit system, and a <a href="http://2.6.19.1">2.6.19.1</a> kernel on a 64-bit system. None have anything<br>resembling that option in that location. I can understand why I might have
<br>never seen it before, though; I seldom spend much time in the "Kernel<br>hacking" area, and by the time I reach it in my pass through configuring a<br>kernel, I'm pretty zoned from having read over so many options that don't
<br>apply to me! ;-)<br></blockquote></div><br>It's still there in Gentoo 2.6.19-r5.<br><br>The 4K stack thing has been around for a while so it's possible that xfs has been fixed by now. There used to be problems with the nVidia X driver as well, and they've been fixed.
<br><br>Steve<br>